Today is a momentous one. After two years and countless trips – since if I’m honest it took far more than the 33 listed here – finally I’m launching The Devil’s Plantation website. For anyone reading, especially those who subscribe to this blog, I want you to be the first to see it. Naturally I’m quite nervous from several angles – whether the site actually works, or if anyone will look at it and if they do, will they…

2012 – the year predicted to herald the end of the world proved instead to be a season of false starts, false flags and false promises, which for me – and many others, I suspect – could not have ended sooner.

Since posting my last piece, I’ve struggled to find a way to close the circle. When the project began in 2007 little did I know I’d still be writing this blog six years later. To coin the cliché –…